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Death Comes Riding |
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ISBN:0930526244 |
DESCRIPTION: "This collection offers a new perspective on spiritual growth. Set against a background of death, history and myth, the poems range from free verse to dramatic monologues and sonnets. As in her previous books, the formal verse is written so skillfully that the subtle rhyme schemes elude us. In the first section of Death Comes Riding, Foronda welcomes readers to the enchanting world that opened up to her after she confronted death while still in her teens. She then explores lessons learned from a diverse cast of characters, contemporary and historical, some precariously close to death, others speaking from the grave.
The book's
final poem take us to the ethereal Andes and the gem-laden hills of
Brazil, which hold the key to the author's quest. |
"Among Cedars" ©1997 by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda a flute maker whittles. Thick red slivers fall, their scent so powerful I’m again a young girl opening the family’s wooden chest to savor a fragrance that does not die out-- like the breath of the carver’s new flute becoming canyon wind, rain burrowing into corn’s soil, flood water paving rainbow’s way. The rough-hewn cedar sings, and I take this as witness of ancestral presence, for I have come to this grove to ask my parents, long dead, for a sign, that was here all along in the stir of night. |
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